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Signals, job control and pipes

Accessing the controlling terminal

If a process attempts to access its controlling terminal after it has been deallocated, access is denied. If the process is not holding or ignoring SIGHUP, it is sent a SIGHUP signal. Otherwise, the access fails with an EIO error.

Members of background process-groups have limited access to their controlling terminals:


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